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TIL Thomas Jefferson had sex with his slave and enslaved his own children.

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9WD6 TIL, The last reported execution for sorcery in Saudi Arabia took place…..in June 2012
X0ZLE TIL Before earning a living as a writer, Octavia E. Butler once worked as a potato chip inspector.
7J0Z TIL “Boko Haram” means “Western education is forbidden” in English. Mohammed Yusuf, the group’s first leader, has stated that he does not believe that the Earth is a sphere, nor does he believe that evaporation causes rain.
wL8pY TIL about the Look-and-say sequence, an incremental pattern generated from counting the number of consecutive digits in groups of the same digit.
mxxRo If stretching before exercise is of questionable benefit, is there any time that stretching is beneficial? The Phys Ed columnist Gretchen Reynolds responds to readers’ questions.